Iowa’s GOP Senate candidates vow to block judges who won’t follow ‘biblical law’

Like many others, I am wondering, what part of no religious test don't these idiots understand?

Four Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate fell over themselves to show deference to religious right voters in a forum sponsored Friday by The Family Leader.

Right Wing Watch reported three of the candidates vowed they would block federal judge nominees who did not adhere to “natural law,” which the candidates described as handed down by God.

Radio host and retired Air Force colonel Sam Clovis (pictured above) said he would use natural law as a “litmus test” for judges, while Sarah Palin-backed state Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Red Oak) said judges and senators should understand U.S. laws “come from God” and make their decisions “within that criteria.”

But Matt Whitaker, a former federal prosecutor, declared his opponents had not gone “far enough” and said he would demand federal judicial nominees be “people of faith” who “have a biblical view of justice.”

“As long as they have that worldview, then they’ll be a good judge,” Whitaker said. “If they have a secular worldview, where this is all we have here on earth, then I’m going to be very concerned about how they judge.”

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Bob Vander Plaats, head of the conservative Family Leader group, opened the forum by declaring that God had three institutions – “the church, the family, and government.”

He warned that legal abortion and marriage equality would remove God’s blessing from the U.S.

“As we have a culture that runs further and further from God’s principles, His precepts, from God’s heart, it’s only natural consequences that we’re going to suffer,” Vander Plaats said. “You cannot run away from the heart of God and expect God to bless the country.”

Iowa’s GOP Senate candidates vow to block judges who won’t follow ‘biblical law’

Federal, state ethics complaints against NOM, Iowa Family Leader, Santorum being evaluated | God Discussion

Last month, gay rights activist Fred Karger filed a complaint in Iowa against the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), a Washington, D.C.-based organization that opposes same sex marriage, saying it violated state law by not disclosing who contributed money during its Iowa efforts to oust Iowa Supreme Court justices during the elections in 2010 and 2012.

According to the Des Moines Register, the complaint will be considered at the Iowa Ethics & Campaign Disclosure Board’s Aug. 8 meeting, where it will be decided whether the complaint is "legally sufficient" for investigation.

Federal, state ethics complaints against NOM, Iowa Family Leader, Santorum being evaluated | God Discussion